Psychology, art, and antifascism: Ernst Kris, E.H. Gombrich, and the politics of caricature

Abstract

"In 1934, Viennese art historian and psychoanalyst Ernst Kris invited his mentee E.H. Gombrich to collaborate on a project that had implications for psychology and neuroscience, and foreshadowed their contributions to the Allied war effort. Their subject: the psychology of caricature and its use and abuse in propaganda. Their collaboration was a seminal early effort to integrate science, the humanities, and political awareness. In this fascinating biographical and intellectual study, Louis Rose explores the content of Kris and Gombrich's project and its legacy"--

Contents

The Unfinished Project -- Toward a Psychology of Art, 1919-32 -- The Vienna-London Connection, 1932-36 -- Daumier in Vienna, 1936 -- The Caricature Book, 1936-38 -- From Vienna to London and New York, 1938-41 -- War Work, 1941-45 -- Between Past and Future, 1945-65.